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CUPPA Alumni Career Prep Workshop for Students

Location

110 CUPPA Hall

Address

412 S. Peoria Street,
Chicago,
IL
60607

Cost

FREE

The event is planned for this Friday, March 2, at CUPPA Hall in Room 110 at 412 S. Peoria from 4pm – 7pm. This is a great way to prepare for your upcoming job interviews. This popular event allows students to brush up their resume and improve interview skills prior to job hunting season. Included in the event are three career story presentations, resume review, and mock interviews.

These folks are also kindly sticking around to help review resumes and conduct mock interviews

Resume Reviewers/Mock Interviewers:

Maria Acosta - FOIA Officer, Office of Legal Affairs, City of Chicago

Bob Fuller - Legislative Aide to Alderman Moore Ward 49

Brian Hacker - Regional Transportation Authority

Paulina Martinez - City of Evanston

Peter Sellke - Illinois Housing Development Authority

Michael Sewall - Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce

Vitaliy Vladimirov - Uptown United

Rita Yamin - Grant Analyst, Metra Commuter Rail

The event is segmented into two parts, (1) Career Stories and (2) Resume Review / Mock Interviews. For the Career stories, we recruit three CUPPA alumni to talk about their careers, their accomplishments and lessons learned.

Following the Career Stories, we invite all students to partner with Alumni volunteers to review their resumes for feedback and conduct a mock interview. The following is a breakdown of the agenda:

4:00-5:00 p.m. Career Stories: Four 15 minute segments of career highlights from different alums in a variety of planning fields. Q & A follows each speaker.

5:00-7:00 p.m.Option 1: Resume and Portfolio Review Workshop - one on one meetings with students to review either a resume or portfolio. Option 2: Interview Skills - one on one "mock" interview or Q&A sessions.